lithium carbonate resources

Assets: Centaur Resources has acquired a high quality portfolio of lithium development assets in Argentina. The flagship project is located in a world class lithium district known for its ability to produce high quality lithium products.

Lithium, the third element in the periodic table, is a soft, silvery-white alkali metal. It is the lightest of all metals. As a whole, the Earth's crust contains approximately 20 parts per million of lithium, and the oceans contain 0.17 parts per million; the atmosphere contains only trace amounts.

Lithium can be processed to form a variety of chemicals including lithium carbonate, lithium bromide, lithium chloride, butyl lithium and lithium hydroxide. The fastest growing and second largest market for lithium globally is for use in batteries.

Of note, a t a cut off of 800 mg/L Lithium there is a high-grade zone in the northern part of the project with a measured and indicated resource estimate of 746,000 tonnes of lithium carbonate equivalent with an average grade of 1,007 mg/L Lithium and 186,000 tonnes inferred resources with an average grade of 1,240 mg/L Lithium.

Nemaska Lithium (NMX.T) i ntends to become a lithium hydroxide supplier and lithium carbonate supplier to the emerging lithium battery market that is largely driven by electric vehicles, cell phones, tablets and other consumer products.

Lithium Americas Corp. (TSX: LAC, NYSE: LAC) is advancing the Cauchari-Olaroz lithium brine project in Jujuy, Argentina and Thacker Pass lithium claystone project in Nevada, USA to production. Lithium Americas is a Canadian-based company listed on both the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX) and New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol LAC.

Recent estimates show that the lithium resources known exceed 40 million tons of Li, corresponding to more than 210 million tons of lithium carbonate equivalents. Albemarle operates two world-class raw material resources based on brine.

Beneficiated lithium minerals are used in the mineral form and, today almost exclusively in China, for chemical conversion to lithium carbonate. Spodumene (8.0% Li 2 O), is the most common commercially exploited lithium mineral.

At a cut off of 800 mg/L Lithium there is a high-grade zone in the northern part of the project with a measured and indicated resource estimate of 746,000 tonnes of lithium carbonate equivalent with an average grade of 1,007 mg/L Lithium and 186,000 tonnes inferred resources with an average grade of 1,240 mg/L Lithium.

By uniting resources and the best available technology, Lithium Australia seeks to establish a vertically integrated lithium processing business. Its disruptive technologies are designed to furnish the lithium battery industry with ethical and sustainable supply solutions.

Claure calls it "the mineral of the future," and he foresaw this potential several years ago based on both his background and business. He was born in Bolivia, the world's largest owner of lithium deposits, and happens to be the founder and CEO of Brightstar, the world's largest distributor of cell phones, ranked 58th on Forbes largest privately-held companies in the U.S.

Mining mainly produces lithium carbonate (Li 2 CO 3), which is then used to manufacture components such as battery cells, for which there is currently no economic substitute for lithium. The price of lithium carbonate is currently around US$4,500 to US$5,500 per metric tonne.

101 LITHIUM . In the late 1990s, subsurface brines became the dominant raw material for lithium carbonate production worldwide because of lower production costs compared with the mining and processing of hard-rock ores.